A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries.

We as the American people have to hold ourselves accountable because we didn't hold our government accountable.

We are capable of performing the task.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.

Love is that common tone shall raise his fiery head and sound his note.